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Article: Iraqi National Congress
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IRAQI NATIONAL CONGRESS
An Iraqi opposition group.
The Iraqi National Congress (INC) is an umbrella Iraqi opposition group founded in 1992. It was formed with the aid of and under the direction of the United States government following the 1991 Gulf War, for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Selected to chair the executive council was Ahmad Chalabi, a secular Iraqi Shi
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ite Muslim and mathematician by training. The INC represented the first major attempt by opponents of Hussein to join forces, bringing together not only Sunni and Shi
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a Arabs (both Islamic fundamentalist and secular) and Kurds, but also varying political tendencies, including ...